Read a full match report of the Premier League game between Swansea City and
Sunderland at Liberty Stadium on Saturday Aug 27 2011.

Swansea City remain goalless in the Premier League but picked up another valuable point in their bid to remain at football’s top table.

Unfortunately, for two sides who kicked off the new season with contrasting ambition, it was another case of nearly but not quite. Record signing Danny Graham spurned half-a-dozen gilt-edged opportunities while, at the opposite end, Asamoah Gyan was equally guilty.

It was one of those days that was high on honest endeavour, but woefully short on star quality. Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers said: “I thought we were terrific and credit to the players. All that was missing was a goal.

''As far as Danny is concerned, I’m not worried. He is getting into positions to score goals, he’s just not scoring them at the moment.”

With Swansea unable to activate their passing game in the face of Sunderland’s heavy artillery in midfield, it was the visitors who could twice have broken the deadlock in the opening 15 minutes. John O’Shea’s header struck the bar and Gyan was denied by the impeccable Michel Vorm from Sebastien Larsson’s inch-perfect delivery.

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Without a goal in their opening two games, Swansea did hit the crossbar through Scott Sinclair and Nathan Dyer headed narrowly wide after Sinclair’s incisive break.

However, Swansea’s best chance came when Graham inexplicably headed wide with only Simon Mignolet to beat.

Last season’s Championship top-scorer missed two more wonderful opportunities after the break with Mignolet pulling off one outstanding block from Neil Taylor’s far-post cross.

Gyan’s failure to beat Vorm shortly after the interval was just about Sunderland’s best chance of the second half, although Craig Gardner’s looping header provided Steve Bruce with another moment of deep frustration.

Bruce said: “It’s been a frustrating, difficult and disappointing week because we’ve created enough chances to have won three games of football. However, at this level, what separates winning from losing, is taking your chances.”